they will be targeting individuals associated with national security activities. >> do you see any problem with the practice as outlined in the "guardian" article? >> intelligence agencies will look at the modern communication medium of the day, just like back before there was an nsa, there was national intelligence collection capability. they looked at telegraphs or telephones. in world war ii they looked at high frequency radio transmissions to track what the axis powers were doing. the intelligence communities have a mission to look at modern communications to keep us safe. i was in iraq during the surge and i led the intelligence element, and we were able to take the ied attacks in our area is down from 150 to 5 based on our intelligence collection date abilities -- data abilities. it helps control the bad people out there. >> yahoo! does disagree with you, bob, saying this report represents a whole new violation of our users' privacy. we strongly call on the world's governments. what are you think of what bob is saying? >> i don't think there's any disagreement that intelligence commu